Gondor's Grumblings

[Gondor]

Yippee, I found the parts in a T-45 box that was hiding behind another box!

Gondor

EDIT: But not the parts I was looking for       

Tomorrow I will have to go into the loft and search all the Hawk kits I have to find the parts if I can't find them hiding in the model room.

Modelling and organised are two words that do not appear to go together very often, if ever.

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

[NARSES2]

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

Result, and just think of all that "other" stuff you found to stimulate the modelling sensors in the brain ? 

[Gondor]

EDIT EDIT: One last look at a couple of old margarine tubs hiding at the back of the bench and I find the missing wings!   

Result, and just think of all that "other" stuff you found to stimulate the modelling sensors in the brain ? 

Nope, that was all just "bits" that have accumulated over the years.

Gondor

[Gondor]

I am now on holiday for a week as preparation for the Scottish Nationals this coming weekend. I don't think I will get anything new finished in time for the show so I am not going to push myself to finish anything, although I will spend a fair amount of my time off modelling. If nothing else, it helps get a few projects moving for Telford later this year.

I made a mistake at the end of yesterday. I follow several build threads on Britmodeller, and I had mistakenly selected "spam" instead of "delete" on my web-based email. The two options are right next to each other, and I am surprised I haven't done this before. I had been looking at my email on my phone as I leisurely got up this morning and had been trying to figure out why I wasn't getting the individual notifications of postings that I normally get. The spam folder held the answer. 

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[Gondor]

Feeling exhausted after the two days of the Scottish Nationals. I was quite restrained with the number of kits that I bought, four in total, with one being the new Airfix Jaguar in 1/48. I am looking out for all the accessories that will inevitably come out so that I can use a few to whiff one of the old kits I have in the stash.
I have a few new ideas for something to build, thank you, Campbell, at least I think it was, might have been someone else, as the chat happened yesterday after Joe bought a built Shackleton so he could get the figures from the base 
The show was much tighter this year as we are now restricted to one hall; the other hall is now a gym, so that can't be used anymore. The competition was in part of the cafeteria, so less room to eat in. A good thing was that there was a small drinks and snack outlet opened by the cafeteria in a back corner of the hall, which saved a lot of trouble.
So that's that for another year. Highlights for me were getting to the show on Friday to help with the set-up. Having a good chat with all the familiar faces from previous shows, finding out information about products that exist and some that don't, and having a long chat with 'el Presidante' of the IPMS about various things. Not forgetting the burchases today from the kit swap 

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[Gondor]

Packing things away yesterday evening, and could I find in my Stash List where my Israeli F-16 kits were. Of course not. I did eventually remember, just as I was about to have my evening meal where the kits were, in fact, the whole stash of Israeli kits were together! So I now have a few F-16's to sort out what I am going to do with them, a Kinetic F-16I with the spine fitted to the upper fuselage, an F-16D with resin detail parts, a Hasegawa F-16I with it's spine and other lumps as a seperate spure, favourite to go on the F-16XL, and a couple of boxes by Isracast with parts for an F-16I in them. So I think I see some Israeli kits in my near future.

Gondor